WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.490 --> 00:00:07.768 Baba K: Alright, there's that familiar sound recording in progress. So we're gonna get started. This is 2 00:00:08.590 --> 00:00:22.279 Baba K: this is 3 of 3 on our our launch for African connections. Welcome to all in the zoom room, to all who are watching us on the recording. I hope you're well in this early stage of April. 3 00:00:22.990 --> 00:00:29.570 Baba K: a rainy day, a rainy week in April, which is very appropriate. You'll find out why in just a moment. 4 00:00:30.090 --> 00:00:47.198 Baba K: Don't know how many of you are watching this as a 3 or 3, or how many of you be watching this for the first time. So we're gonna try to accommodate all. We're gonna go through quickly, the whole, the whole project with the introduction, and then the background of the project, and then I don't know if we'll do a lot of feedback 5 00:00:47.580 --> 00:01:07.620 Baba K: cause we don't have a lot of people who are participating live with us. But, we always have a couple of things that we that we thought about or examined, or wanted to consider for edits for future modules, or for modifications on current modules. So we'll throw some of our own internal feedback in there, potentially, and then then we'll show off 6 00:01:07.620 --> 00:01:19.229 Baba K: the the third module and and by then we might have a guest or 2 that has a question, but if not, then we'll show you how to access, and talk a little bit about what's coming up next? 7 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:52.570 Baba K: Alright. So on the left is a picture of a group of young folks that we took out to Woodbox Farm in Virginia. That's Farmer Marcus's farm that's actually Farmer Monica. Right there. We took a field trip over to her to her farm and some strawberries, so the the whole project. We kind of nicknamed internally Black kids, back farmers and the goal of it was to get to get youth. 8 00:01:52.570 --> 00:02:06.024 Baba K: Our youth outdoors on farms connected to farmers connected to the soil and learning in a different way than they than they probably are used to learning. So this was one of our teach 22 journey days. 9 00:02:06.540 --> 00:02:10.560 Baba K: it's couple of years ago now. It's almost 2 years ago. You can see it. 10 00:02:10.860 --> 00:02:40.799 Baba K: You can see there's a quote there. There's no culture with the agriculture, Bob Odunu, for those who know he transitioned last year. But he's a giant in our in our region in terms of agriculture, and you know, really, being a example of what it means to study deeply, know deeply ourselves, African people, our history. He was a walking rolodex of history and and was really about it in terms of agriculture. If there was a agricultural event going on in the Dmv. 11 00:02:41.310 --> 00:02:52.379 Baba K: You know he was. Gonna be there with this in my mind. He's like he's like 6 10 he's probably not quite that tall, but that's the type of presence he had, so so shout out to Bob O'dono, we honor him 12 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:14.042 Baba K: alright! Here's some more, some more pictures. In the sensor. You will see a day that we had a bunch of homeschool students come out to Carter Farms. You might notice those locks on the right side of that picture in the middle. Michael Carter, Junior. We hear from him in a minute. 13 00:03:14.890 --> 00:03:26.909 Baba K: The picture on the right is another. Those 2 pictures on the right are both woodbox farms, and then the pictures on the left, the upper one. We went to back our base camp in Baltimore, and and and did a 14 00:03:27.150 --> 00:03:54.009 Baba K: educational session there, which is wonderful. They have. They have animals which the kids really like. That's one of the things we found out. So the bottom picture. The bottom left was the only teach 22 journeys event where we where we catered to older quote, unquote youth. So all 4 of our participants there were were in their twenties, and we spent 3 nights 4 days in the sunny farm in Virginia, and camped out and had a farmer Ann 15 00:03:54.280 --> 00:04:10.107 Baba K: teach us a lot about how to grow vegetables, how to go to market, and and also she is a wealth of knowledge around camping and you know, cooking in the cooking, in the and rustic conditions and all that. So that was a great experience. But the one thing they said is that 16 00:04:10.380 --> 00:04:24.763 Baba K: we wanna like, we're the animals we want animals. So I think in in our used mind that that farm equals animals. So that's something that that the kids in the upper left picture had a had a good time with with the farm animals, and we've we've since adjusted 17 00:04:25.679 --> 00:04:32.510 Baba K: to allow for animals whenever we can find it. On a farm. So next slide, please. 18 00:04:35.860 --> 00:04:40.215 Baba K: Alright. So this page features 2. 2 of our 19 00:04:40.750 --> 00:05:07.093 Baba K: 2 of our core that really helped make this curriculum come together. Couldn't have done it without these sisters. Mama Bisha Reese is A is a author, teacher, home school curriculum designer. She basically took the knowledge and the the information that that Michael Carter has been uploading his mind for all these years. We? We downloaded some of that from him, and and Mama Bisha Reese helped to transform it into 20 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:11.730 Baba K: into a curriculum that has some structure, so people can navigate it. 21 00:05:11.730 --> 00:05:32.304 Baba K: and then Tania on the right we had the pleasure of having her as an intern during during the summer last year, and she put together. She formatted the whole thing. So if you like, the way it looks is because that sister had her hand on it. And so they they really did play a huge role in it. I don't think they're with us tonight, but 22 00:05:32.988 --> 00:05:51.071 Baba K: like, I said, there are key piece across the bottom. Carter Farms. You'll see him in a minute. We'll hear from him in a minute. Woodbox Farm. I told you a little bit about Farmer Marcus. Actually, I talked about all these Nasani farm and backyard base camp. These were our partners for the project, the black kids back farmer project. And 23 00:05:51.610 --> 00:06:06.239 Baba K: yeah, it was a good. It was a good 2 years for us to to really put some time and effort into and to seeing what's available in our in our our Maryland Virginia community, and to be able to to 24 00:06:06.260 --> 00:06:26.137 Baba K: link and use our resources and give our youth a a different experience of what education could be like, and to really try to to introduce them to some some giants in the in the farming, in the farming space and the farming community and our farming history, which is something that that Mr. Carter is is 25 00:06:26.550 --> 00:06:29.940 Baba K: really big on. It's really important, all right. Next slide, please. 26 00:06:33.280 --> 00:06:34.854 Baba K: Boom. Okay. So 27 00:06:35.550 --> 00:06:38.666 Baba K: Carter Farms is is 28 00:06:39.900 --> 00:06:44.100 Baba K: is where he does his work. Agricultures is nonprofit and 29 00:06:45.080 --> 00:06:49.910 Baba K: I'll let Mr. Carter talk a little bit about. If you could talk a little bit about 30 00:06:50.010 --> 00:07:02.020 Baba K: why is so important. I've said it in my words, but but let's hear it from. Let's hear it from the Guru and stuff like, why was it so important to spend 2 years work on this project, or and anything else that you wanna share with the good people. 31 00:07:03.590 --> 00:07:04.150 Me Carter: Hmm. 32 00:07:04.380 --> 00:07:06.210 Me Carter: oh, good afternoon. 33 00:07:06.770 --> 00:07:08.709 Me Carter: My name is Michael Carter, Jr. 34 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:10.900 Me Carter: With Alpha culture. 35 00:07:11.490 --> 00:07:15.710 Me Carter: and I guess why? Was a good reason why not? 36 00:07:16.390 --> 00:07:19.800 Me Carter: There's always a great reason to go out and share 37 00:07:20.400 --> 00:07:22.010 Me Carter: history. 38 00:07:23.670 --> 00:07:25.040 Me Carter: experiences. 39 00:07:25.190 --> 00:07:28.249 Me Carter: Our talents are genius with the next generation. 40 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:39.710 Me Carter: and agriculture, and our relationship with the land has always been our innate genius as people of African descent, people of indigenous descent. Wherever you are from around the world. 41 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:43.130 Me Carter: the indigenous peoples of every continent. 42 00:07:43.180 --> 00:07:45.960 Me Carter: we're our agricultural Jesus. 43 00:07:46.020 --> 00:07:47.630 Me Carter: agricultural savants. 44 00:07:48.020 --> 00:07:49.919 Me Carter: And our culture has been 45 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:54.380 Me Carter: relegated to a system that's 46 00:07:55.030 --> 00:08:03.009 Me Carter: has been denigrated, used in Western society and people who have adopted Western cultural mindsets around 47 00:08:03.340 --> 00:08:05.769 Me Carter: agriculture being a low and lowly 48 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:09.339 Me Carter: poor occupation of vocation. 49 00:08:09.570 --> 00:08:12.230 Me Carter: So it was my pleasure to be able to share some insight 50 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:15.600 Me Carter: around. Why this occupation is so 51 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:16.860 Me Carter: important. 52 00:08:17.850 --> 00:08:23.589 Me Carter: Why was the beginning of wealth and ancient times? Why, it's going to be the future of wealth 53 00:08:23.650 --> 00:08:25.307 Me Carter: in future times? 54 00:08:25.930 --> 00:08:31.289 Me Carter: And our children as well as our adults, and our parents need to have a better understanding of our role in our culture 55 00:08:31.880 --> 00:08:33.610 Me Carter: that I don't know anyone 56 00:08:34.230 --> 00:08:35.489 Me Carter: was never eaten. 57 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:39.360 Me Carter: and if you need anything you have participated in that recording. 58 00:08:40.380 --> 00:08:42.350 Me Carter: I grew up without a cell phone. 59 00:08:43.049 --> 00:08:45.330 Me Carter: I grew up without GPS. 60 00:08:46.180 --> 00:08:47.989 Me Carter: I grew up without 61 00:08:48.100 --> 00:08:50.390 Me Carter: all a lot of the technologies 62 00:08:51.300 --> 00:08:57.140 Me Carter: that we think are affiliated or or worthwhile today. But they didn't exist 63 00:08:57.230 --> 00:09:03.209 Me Carter: when I was growing up, and for many of us parents didn't exist when we were growing up, yet we thrive despite. 64 00:09:04.390 --> 00:09:05.540 Me Carter: And 65 00:09:06.190 --> 00:09:11.620 Me Carter: one thing that we could say we didn't do was thrive without person, that we all ate. 66 00:09:12.630 --> 00:09:18.189 Me Carter: You had Government assistance, whether you had school lunches, whether you had things from the farm. 67 00:09:18.712 --> 00:09:20.190 Me Carter: We all ate 68 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:22.990 Me Carter: and we ate every day, and we continue to eat. 69 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:29.479 Me Carter: And we gotta play a greater role in our involvement of what we consume as well as what our families and communities consume. 70 00:09:29.640 --> 00:09:33.989 Me Carter: That's why it was important for me to participate with this program and help to 71 00:09:35.490 --> 00:09:43.700 Me Carter: write or prepare a curriculum that future generations can take advantage of, and learn more about the importance of this location 72 00:09:44.400 --> 00:09:46.360 Me Carter: and our genius, and really 73 00:09:46.640 --> 00:09:48.010 Me Carter: reconstitute 74 00:09:48.610 --> 00:09:50.469 Me Carter: the genius in the next generation. 75 00:09:54.310 --> 00:10:05.700 Baba K: Right. So there you go. That wasn't inspiration enough then. I don't know. It is appreciate you, brother, and you know 76 00:10:05.830 --> 00:10:22.473 Baba K: we spent almost a year of having conversations and and and getting stories or excerpts from from Mr. Carter, and we we got so much content that that we could produce additional modules with so excited to see 77 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:30.619 Baba K: the future of this curriculum. And hopefully people use it and get feedback to us so that we can continue to develop it. 78 00:10:31.210 --> 00:10:36.160 Baba K: Fantastic alright. Let me momentarily to go next slide, please. 79 00:10:38.030 --> 00:10:39.283 Baba K: Alright. So 80 00:10:40.160 --> 00:11:07.889 Baba K: there's a lot of words up here, but basically just wanted a chance to for people to know what the mission is, and basically is to bridge the gap between the farm and the classroom. Like like, Michael said. Everybody eats. But a lot of people don't really take time to think about the connection between what they're eating and where it came from and how many different hands it had to pass through to get there. So so this curriculum shines a light on on that as well 81 00:11:08.070 --> 00:11:11.020 Baba K: as being able to 82 00:11:11.210 --> 00:11:19.980 Baba K: organize, basically organize in a way where where it's not just a memorize this stuff we don't want to. We don't want to take our 83 00:11:19.980 --> 00:11:27.900 Baba K: our use head, split it open, and just put information in there. They may or may not use a lot of the the process of of 84 00:11:28.293 --> 00:11:50.730 Baba K: educating or inculturating people is the sharing, and is the way that the knowledge is is is communicated. So we aim for something that was interactive, something that that allowed students to process the information. Michael was big on one section, you'll see on the critical thinking section which later grew into African analysis and 85 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:59.710 Baba K: and the discussion of the material, the breaking it down, the sharing of it, the sharing of perspectives is one of the things that 86 00:12:00.210 --> 00:12:06.879 Baba K: at least, I think, makes this makes this quick and valuable and and makes it somewhat unique. Alright. Next slide. 87 00:12:10.030 --> 00:12:19.489 Baba K: all right. So this is overview of the curriculum organized into 6 major parts. There's 3 modules 88 00:12:19.970 --> 00:12:36.809 Baba K: and each of the modules has 4 lessons, so we'll go through those in a minute. But that's how it's organized. So that basically there's 12 lessons, and there's an activity bank. And this activity bank is really is really, really, really good. Basically, what happened is is 89 00:12:37.410 --> 00:12:47.700 Baba K: After getting the topics in the direction from Michael, Mama Bish took it and found activities that really really brought the principles to life. 90 00:12:47.810 --> 00:13:06.469 Baba K: and you'll see the principles will get there in a second. And so these activities you can swap them in. You can swap them out if you have short on time, you can find shorter ones. If you have a lot of time, you can do longer ones. So it's very customizable. And there's some really, really good engaging activities in there. So so definitely tap into that. 91 00:13:07.717 --> 00:13:25.631 Baba K: We thought it was important to have biographies for the people that are featured in the curriculum, the ancestors that are that are featured. Because sometimes you know, you just you just want to let the Watoto know who someone is, and why there's such a pivotal part of our history and our legacy, and so 92 00:13:25.940 --> 00:13:50.079 Baba K: to be able to have those biographies on the farm, on the fly, or you know, on a car ride, or or really any place where you might just wanna begin a discussion and center it around ancestor and their accomplishment. Those biographies are are handy to have, like I mentioned before, the African analysis. A way to to deeply think about some of the questions that the curriculum raises and do so from the mindset of 93 00:13:51.040 --> 00:14:09.299 Baba K: how can we think about this? Or how can we problem, solve and use use what our ancestors have given us, and build upon that, to solve our own problems and to make a make a path for it for ourselves and our our children, so that the thinking about it and the discussion and the analysis are really important. The 4 piece 94 00:14:10.128 --> 00:14:38.760 Baba K: this is this is one of Michael's big things, the fourps, the principles, practices, plants, and people of African descent is really one of the concepts that the curriculum is based around that there are these keys, these these key practices, or these key plants, or these key people, that if they had not happened, or if they had not been invented by by our folks, the whole course of history would be different. And and that's one of the things that that Michael repeatedly talks about that. 95 00:14:38.820 --> 00:14:48.319 Baba K: They don't get enough. They don't get enough recognition, because these accomplishments and these discoveries and innovations really did change the world. 96 00:14:48.330 --> 00:14:57.469 Baba K: And we give a lot of praise to people who've done far less so. Not only is this curriculum design for our children and their 97 00:14:57.760 --> 00:15:20.960 Baba K: so they could. They could make the connection with the farm and to learn in this way. But it's also it's also a it's also our honoring of of those ancestors who did so much and didn't get really much recognition at the time, didn't die rich, so they didn't get a lot of money and are not celebrated today the way they should be so so we honor them. And then the last section of the song section, 98 00:15:21.540 --> 00:15:26.808 Baba K: you know, we we do things to the rhythm and the movement of music. 99 00:15:27.230 --> 00:15:32.399 Baba K: And the learning should be no different. It doesn't have to happen in a vacuum 100 00:15:32.420 --> 00:15:33.920 Baba K: and it. 101 00:15:34.190 --> 00:15:35.150 Baba K: And 102 00:15:36.280 --> 00:15:38.970 Baba K: there's there's songs that 103 00:15:39.500 --> 00:16:01.900 Baba K: that kind of just bring the material to life, some of some of our favorites, some that connect definitely connect to the themes. And so it's there to just use as you as you will, you can center. Consider an activity around it. We can just have it playing in the background. But we thought it. That'd be nice to to make connections, not only through discussion, reading and doing things, but also through music 104 00:16:02.560 --> 00:16:03.789 Baba K: alright. Next slide 105 00:16:07.560 --> 00:16:29.552 Baba K: alright. So moment you all been waiting for the 3 modules. You can check the recordings for the the first 2. I'll breeze through them really quickly. But but there! There are 3. We're here to to check out the third one more. So so the first module with the cash crops, also had a couple of key ancestors in there who made made that possible? And then 106 00:16:30.050 --> 00:16:33.329 Baba K: land and soil and the water cycle. So let's see what's next next slide, please. 107 00:16:35.540 --> 00:16:40.055 Baba K: Alright. So george Washington Carver was was 108 00:16:40.650 --> 00:16:54.080 Baba K: the prominent ancestor that was featured in module. One. Of course people know him as the peanut guy, but he did so much more than that. Do you, Carter? You wanna say a quick word about about George Washington Carver. 109 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:58.020 Baba K: or you might be 110 00:17:00.380 --> 00:17:06.740 Baba K: he was in the middle of making a gourmet meal, so I have to fill in for him here. 111 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:07.889 Me Carter: Got it. Got it. 112 00:17:08.280 --> 00:17:11.399 Me Carter: I can speak on like I just had to get to the 113 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:18.199 Me Carter: yeah. Sometimes the the mute, mute button on the zone becomes if they hide and see. 114 00:17:18.380 --> 00:17:19.700 Baba K: Oh, yeah, familiar with that. Yeah. 115 00:17:19.700 --> 00:17:20.640 Me Carter: As we're happy to talk. 116 00:17:23.422 --> 00:17:25.359 Me Carter: Got to cover. 117 00:17:25.390 --> 00:17:27.760 Me Carter: and it's infinite wisdom. The fact that 118 00:17:28.010 --> 00:17:31.209 Me Carter: one in most cases he's never referred to as a doctor. 119 00:17:32.210 --> 00:17:43.789 Me Carter: Maybe we just call him outrightly George Washington Carter when he's a doctor, you know, and so it's always key to make sure that others put respect on his name. 120 00:17:43.870 --> 00:17:48.143 Me Carter: His contributions changed the course of arrow culture, as we know today. 121 00:17:48.540 --> 00:17:51.019 Me Carter: Without his contributions 122 00:17:52.060 --> 00:17:54.270 Me Carter: America could not have industrialized 123 00:17:54.678 --> 00:17:58.500 Me Carter: without those contributions, I would doubt if we had, would have had 124 00:17:58.690 --> 00:18:04.730 Me Carter: the growth in the United States from economic agricultural conservation 125 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:10.240 Me Carter: technological way that we've seen. He was 126 00:18:10.620 --> 00:18:16.520 Me Carter: to say he was ahead of his time is an understatement. He was living now. He can still be ahead of his time. 127 00:18:17.660 --> 00:18:18.979 Me Carter: We'll hit a icon. 128 00:18:19.470 --> 00:18:26.769 Me Carter: He had the ability to see and understand and allow plans of the creation to talk to him. So he was on another spiritual plane. 129 00:18:26.840 --> 00:18:29.200 Me Carter: in terms of highly related with nature. 130 00:18:34.490 --> 00:18:44.477 Baba K: Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for that. Yeah, that spiritual connection is one that that we don't talk enough about. And he was definitely tapped in. He definitely was 131 00:18:46.140 --> 00:18:47.100 Me Carter: Yeah, this. 132 00:18:47.870 --> 00:18:50.130 Baba K: Oh, I think he let me see. 133 00:18:50.140 --> 00:19:05.140 Baba K: Put a little mutiny. Mute. Okay. So the other ancestor that was feature big. Here was Evan. Albeas! He's the one that that made all your vanilla possible. At a at a mass scale. So that was a huge accomplishment. And then we have. 134 00:19:05.460 --> 00:19:18.425 Baba K: you know, a couple of crops that were that were really big in form of rice and and cotton as well. So so that was module one. You can check the recording if you wanna hear more about that, or just go and dive into the curriculum. 135 00:19:19.010 --> 00:19:29.419 Baba K: the the second module being land and soil. I really do. I really do like what this is saying in this quote here. 136 00:19:29.790 --> 00:19:31.200 Baba K: You know, people. 137 00:19:31.930 --> 00:19:33.190 Baba K: you know, people 138 00:19:33.410 --> 00:19:38.938 Baba K: a lot of times. Look at this, the ground beneath their feet, and they think it's just dirt, and it's so much more than that. 139 00:19:39.600 --> 00:19:46.550 Baba K: And so that's what this module was was really about. If you go to the next slide, please, about really 140 00:19:46.980 --> 00:19:59.880 Baba K: kind of bringing it to life and showing people all the different things that that it does. You know from it being a filter to how how rich and 141 00:20:00.450 --> 00:20:01.730 Baba K: and 142 00:20:01.820 --> 00:20:08.049 Baba K: mineral, rich and nutrient rich is, especially on the continent, and 143 00:20:08.510 --> 00:20:28.389 Baba K: and then we have henry Blair is our our major ancestor, who is featured in in this module, and his inventions, allowed the natural gifts and abilities of the soil to be even amplified with with the seed planter and his other inventions. So you can check Module 2 to to to get deeper into land and soil 144 00:20:30.760 --> 00:20:31.440 Baba K: walking. 145 00:20:31.870 --> 00:20:49.705 Baba K: and then our third and third and final module well, third and final for this, that we again we have a lot of content we wanna get to at some point. But this one's about the water cycle so very appropriate. We had this rainy week here in Maryland at least. So a lot of you are probably experiencing in that. But the 146 00:20:50.050 --> 00:21:02.840 Baba K: There's an ancestor here who's been quoted Hazel Johnson. That we that I just learned about during the course of this curriculum and and so we wanted to to let people know who she is, because. 147 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:14.899 Baba K: you know, if she's nicknamed the Mother of the Environmental Justice Movement. And you know we've we've gotta. We've gotta know her story and and walking her footsteps, so we'll get more to her in a minute next slide. 148 00:21:15.860 --> 00:21:19.870 Baba K: So these are the 4 lessons that are in this this third. 149 00:21:20.110 --> 00:21:43.155 Baba K: this third module of the water cycle. We all know that that the climate is changing and you know, we could. We could focus on any region in the world and have, you know, infinite lessons about what is happening and what's gonna happen in the future because of it. But but we chose to focus on what's gonna be happening with the brains in Africa? So 150 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:46.130 Baba K: and 151 00:21:46.150 --> 00:21:59.264 Baba K: it's a, it's a really interesting concept, because because a lot of people say, and I tend to agree that the future, the future wars and conflicts are not gonna be about about oil 152 00:21:59.730 --> 00:22:26.489 Baba K: and they may not even be as much about minerals they are now. But but we're gonna get to a point where water, fresh water is gonna be what people are fighting over. So so for for wise like our ancestors once were, we'll go ahead and start studying deeply now. And so that's what that module points to to understanding the changes. And what's gonna be happening for our rain cycles and fresh water is really important. The second lesson goes 153 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:34.090 Baba K: pretty far back in time to ancient Kimmot and talking about the the now river. It was centrally important. 154 00:22:34.558 --> 00:22:37.191 Baba K: as we know, to the to 155 00:22:37.910 --> 00:22:44.610 Baba K: to our ancient African history. There in many ways the birthplace of civilization. 156 00:22:45.180 --> 00:22:52.470 Baba K: And it's pretty interesting to look and see what's happening with the Nile. Now what's happening? 157 00:22:52.520 --> 00:23:06.199 Baba K: And Egypt or or Kim, as it was called in it's really interesting to see what's happening around the now from it being once central to food production and just a really vital part of 158 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:25.730 Baba K: of the everyday lives of those ancestors to to now it's just, you know, it's just not the same and actually, I was talking with talking with Michael the other day. About the now he had a really he had a really interesting point about about the Silt, do you remember? Do you remember that thought? Do you wanna share that with folks? 159 00:23:27.770 --> 00:23:30.920 Me Carter: Yeah. Remind me how they had about 4 still conversations last week. 160 00:23:31.834 --> 00:23:36.405 Baba K: No, we were talking about 161 00:23:37.460 --> 00:23:56.200 Baba K: We're talking about how I believe you're talking about how the, the the silt deposits, or what made that land so fertile and then. Now there's just not as much. There's not as much time, attention, and care given to that to the to that concept of 162 00:23:56.370 --> 00:23:58.211 Baba K: of the movement of of 163 00:23:59.420 --> 00:24:04.280 Baba K: of water, the movement of land, and so, as is generated by water. 164 00:24:06.150 --> 00:24:07.095 Me Carter: Yes, 165 00:24:08.390 --> 00:24:14.659 Me Carter: that's probably a little known and not a well known understanding. I think we probably heard it growing up. 166 00:24:16.012 --> 00:24:20.080 Me Carter: Relationship to the study of HK. Study Egypt. 167 00:24:20.520 --> 00:24:23.089 Me Carter: of the dial, rising 168 00:24:23.710 --> 00:24:27.430 Me Carter: and kind of fertilizing and providing water for the 169 00:24:27.560 --> 00:24:33.500 Me Carter: the sole, and then going back, and one of the key components of that was was the silt, and the silt was the 170 00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:37.189 Me Carter: lack of a better term, like the sand, the sediment 171 00:24:37.220 --> 00:24:39.560 Me Carter: that's left behind after the 172 00:24:40.940 --> 00:24:42.026 Me Carter: after the 173 00:24:42.620 --> 00:24:46.050 Me Carter: water receipts, receipts, and it was elaborate 174 00:24:46.280 --> 00:24:48.700 Me Carter: system of allowing to come up 175 00:24:48.710 --> 00:24:52.549 Me Carter: and then having channels or ways to move the water back down 176 00:24:53.203 --> 00:24:56.200 Me Carter: through the system and through the through the countryside. 177 00:24:57.010 --> 00:24:58.330 Me Carter: and there's still 178 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:04.290 Me Carter: created a lot of minerals who provide a lot of minerals within the soil as well as 179 00:25:04.460 --> 00:25:12.469 Me Carter: deeply watered the soul. You're in the middle of what is now a desert, which is then probably much more of a savanna 180 00:25:12.830 --> 00:25:14.662 Me Carter: in a bush area. 181 00:25:15.460 --> 00:25:17.470 Me Carter: it wasn't desert at the time. 182 00:25:18.270 --> 00:25:23.539 Me Carter: and these individuals or these individuals will bring in because they understood the necessary. 183 00:25:23.890 --> 00:25:26.479 Me Carter: their spiritual, physical. 184 00:25:26.790 --> 00:25:28.070 Me Carter: emotional 185 00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:31.909 Me Carter: and physical relationship with that of the creation 186 00:25:33.340 --> 00:25:35.350 Me Carter: specifically toward the now river. 187 00:25:36.070 --> 00:25:37.949 Me Carter: and they work to preserve it 188 00:25:38.590 --> 00:25:49.450 Me Carter: there. Festivals around Asic and the falling of it. There were times when it didn't rise as high, and there were shortages. There were times when it rose too high, and there were floods. 189 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:51.940 Me Carter: but they learn how to manage it and manage it well. 190 00:25:52.270 --> 00:25:57.610 Me Carter: and the greatness of this empire and this civilization was agricultural. 191 00:25:57.860 --> 00:26:08.099 Me Carter: that we would not be reading about or studying ancient Egypt, and talking about as great as having that had this agricultural themes, understanding that it built into the civilization 192 00:26:08.520 --> 00:26:11.090 Me Carter: that everyone respected it and audited it 193 00:26:11.830 --> 00:26:14.630 Me Carter: because they understood how vital was 194 00:26:14.750 --> 00:26:15.910 Me Carter: to their health. 195 00:26:16.010 --> 00:26:19.129 Me Carter: to the success, to the sustainability of the nation. 196 00:26:19.705 --> 00:26:25.590 Me Carter: and they were able to grow crops that would normally not grow in that particular type of soil, because it's it's a sandy soil. 197 00:26:26.269 --> 00:26:30.439 Me Carter: Because it's sandy. It doesn't retain nutrients in the same manner 198 00:26:30.900 --> 00:26:34.730 Me Carter: that a clay or a we've got a loan, so 199 00:26:35.140 --> 00:26:38.379 Me Carter: we'll be able to provide. But again this silk played a tremendous. 200 00:26:38.450 --> 00:26:42.769 Me Carter: tremendous aspect in terms of feeding the soil and feeding the plants 201 00:26:43.110 --> 00:26:48.719 Me Carter: to the point that distill, you know, was ultimately its rise. But because. 202 00:26:48.740 --> 00:26:49.750 Me Carter: yeah. 203 00:26:49.780 --> 00:26:52.240 Me Carter: and it still was like, what we know today is hummus 204 00:26:53.060 --> 00:26:54.200 Me Carter: by the humus. 205 00:26:55.290 --> 00:27:11.679 Me Carter: how much is 2 Ms. The humus sword we get now, change a lot of nutrients. And as a gentleman. I wanna say his name is Maynard. 206 00:27:12.990 --> 00:27:20.059 Me Carter: I wanna say, Professor Manager, someone like that he studied and and has this theory around 207 00:27:20.210 --> 00:27:23.290 Me Carter: utilizing seawater to fertilize crops. 208 00:27:23.869 --> 00:27:28.901 Me Carter: Goodness, wanna get his name? Was it Boston America? I can't remember 209 00:27:29.860 --> 00:27:33.030 Me Carter: But he had various books and studies around 210 00:27:33.250 --> 00:27:35.330 Me Carter: harvesting or 211 00:27:36.510 --> 00:27:42.429 Me Carter: securing water from X. Amount of spots in the sea, and watering plants with it. 212 00:27:42.650 --> 00:27:44.359 Me Carter: rather wood and sores with it. 213 00:27:44.430 --> 00:27:47.890 Me Carter: Be able to have it for plants when they're ready to grow, because 214 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:53.279 Me Carter: much of the nutrients that we need in our bodies are usually in the sea and in 215 00:27:53.420 --> 00:27:54.820 Me Carter: rivers and lakes. 216 00:27:55.810 --> 00:28:01.019 Me Carter: and when that access to those minerals aren't there? We see depth, deficits and deficiencies in our own bodies. 217 00:28:01.300 --> 00:28:02.520 Me Carter: And I animals. 218 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:05.810 Me Carter: So the individuals from 219 00:28:05.870 --> 00:28:13.110 Me Carter: the kinetic civilizations were able to get a lot of those benefits because they're now put up those minerals 220 00:28:13.220 --> 00:28:14.560 Me Carter: right to the. 221 00:28:14.660 --> 00:28:16.380 Me Carter: to the, to their fields. 222 00:28:17.220 --> 00:28:22.789 Me Carter: Positive them there it stayed there, locked into those plant rules were able to unlock them out of the soul. 223 00:28:23.590 --> 00:28:25.270 Me Carter: And it was an amazing. 224 00:28:25.500 --> 00:28:32.879 Me Carter: again brilliant way to approach life and civilization by centering their lifestyle totally closer. 225 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:42.400 Me Carter: There's so many of the scenes that are on the walls of the various pyramids and edifices that are all throughout a Kimmot, and even in Nubia 226 00:28:42.770 --> 00:28:45.049 Me Carter: have depictions of agricultural scenes 227 00:28:45.630 --> 00:28:48.539 Me Carter: highlighting the importance of those scenes 228 00:28:48.800 --> 00:28:53.270 Me Carter: in in those I'm sorry highlighting them important at that vocation industry in their lives. 229 00:28:53.340 --> 00:28:57.970 Me Carter: and it's going to be critical now for us to see the imports of in our lives today 230 00:28:58.130 --> 00:29:04.199 Me Carter: that with all of the technology that we have today, what we're lacking is really nutrient, dense foods. 231 00:29:05.520 --> 00:29:10.450 Me Carter: and the only way to get that is to feed the soil, and the only way to feed the stores understand that we need to feed the soil 232 00:29:10.870 --> 00:29:26.620 Me Carter: and do the things that we need to do to feed the soil which and some of that may require. Having floodlight irrigations with in East Africa and West Africa. That's a common practice still today to do flood irrigation, you would have a say, for instance, a bolt of river. 233 00:29:27.600 --> 00:29:33.070 Me Carter: and you will utilize the when the flood. When the Voltage River rises, you create canals. 234 00:29:33.810 --> 00:29:39.829 Me Carter: If you were by the banks, or you know, by the banks you could make those canals go and and feed your fields. 235 00:29:40.280 --> 00:29:42.450 Me Carter: and those nutrients that come from there was. 236 00:29:42.690 --> 00:29:55.180 Me Carter: you know, the presentations, the fish, the other bacteria and microorganisms in in that water are now able to feed your soil, which then feeds your plants. But ultimately you 237 00:29:56.160 --> 00:30:01.720 Me Carter: and the ancient medic associations understood immensely how to be their soul. 238 00:30:06.340 --> 00:30:20.349 Baba K: Yeah, that's a that's a brilliant walkthrough history and illustration of that. And and we can see the wisdom in that of being able to understand the cycles of water as they're happening in nature 239 00:30:20.810 --> 00:30:41.410 Baba K: and working with that in order to create your food versus where much of our much of our civilization is gone in the current day, which is getting as far away from nature as possible, eliminating as much of nature as possible. Especially in cities and then and then figuring out how to to get 240 00:30:41.410 --> 00:30:55.019 Baba K: the things we need into these basically concrete deserts that we've created. And that's exactly what's happening in places like Flint. Many of us know the unfortunate 241 00:30:55.370 --> 00:30:58.649 Baba K: situations surrounding the Flint water crisis. 242 00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:24.109 Baba K: but that's but that's in direct contrast. What was happening at ancient Kimmot rather than, and this is not to blame the the citizens of Flint cause they're victims. But but look at what we have. We have people that are reliant on a mechanical system that brings in the water versus understanding. The cycles of nature and rainfall and river rise to be able to work with the natural systems to get what they need. So 243 00:31:24.110 --> 00:31:40.830 Baba K: you know, anytime we're anytime, we're trying to remove ourselves from nature and then figure out a technological way to to get the things back that we need. We're gonna pay a price. And so, unfortunately, those people in in front are still, you know, paying paying the price for that contaminated water. 244 00:31:41.270 --> 00:31:46.029 Baba K: you know, and the infrastructure that that's failing them. 245 00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:59.839 Baba K: and you know we've gotta be able to control our own destiny, and the only way to really be able to do that is to is to be on land and to produce our own food, and to get our own water. So 246 00:32:00.150 --> 00:32:17.989 Baba K: So the third module or the third lesson, excuse me, talks about about that crisis, and you know, the discussion around that is looking for ways to solve those problems and to to move our move, our people away from those, those traps that that are created. And then 247 00:32:18.580 --> 00:32:20.909 Baba K: the fourth lesson is a little bit different. 248 00:32:21.624 --> 00:32:26.265 Baba K: It doesn't feature water directly, and here's here's where 249 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:29.454 Baba K: Her ancestor is coming back. 250 00:32:30.670 --> 00:32:34.181 Baba K: Miss Hazel is coming back to say that. 251 00:32:35.250 --> 00:32:39.263 Baba K: well, let me put it like this. I was thinking a lot about how 252 00:32:40.060 --> 00:32:43.410 Baba K: how we're in this module of water, and how 253 00:32:43.980 --> 00:32:56.184 Baba K: water is really emblematic of of women, and that and the energy that they bring, and how we really have to to honor that and protect that and 254 00:32:56.660 --> 00:33:01.186 Baba K: you know it comes in some ways obvious and some ways not obvious. But 255 00:33:01.620 --> 00:33:07.970 Baba K: You know how water can be nourishing, how water is is powerful. 256 00:33:08.351 --> 00:33:18.950 Baba K: Without being aggressive, try to carry a bucket of water, or try to stand in front of a wave or try to stand in front of tsunami. Water is very powerful. 257 00:33:18.990 --> 00:33:26.700 Baba K: but at the same time it's nursing, and it really does. It really can accomplish a lot of things. It can cut. 258 00:33:26.760 --> 00:33:34.160 Baba K: pass through rocks, but it does so with being fluent and flexible. 259 00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:56.885 Baba K: that to me a lot of my mother is described in, and those words are how she operates, and I think a lot of you also, could connect with that as well. And then, even physically, we're talking about when women are given birth. What happens? Their water breaks so they're carrying around all this water. And then they they let that go as a new life end of the world. So so Hazel Johnson to me. 260 00:33:57.320 --> 00:34:07.450 Baba K: It has that water energy. And the way that she used that in the 19 seventies is that her community in Chicago? She noticed that people were getting sick. 261 00:34:09.050 --> 00:34:12.029 Baba K: And you know. So this again is repeating. 262 00:34:12.130 --> 00:34:35.979 Baba K: or you know, things of repeating. History repeats itself. So we have Flint today. But then back then it was south side of Chicago, and her neighborhood. People were getting sick, started to investigate. Why discovered that the neighborhood was built on top of a top of a landfill? Essentially and so and so her work began to, to, you know, fight for for people's rights to to adequate housing this pollutant free 263 00:34:35.980 --> 00:34:47.369 Baba K: and free of hazards like that. And she really did kind of birth. That environmental arm activism that built upon the work in the sixties 264 00:34:47.982 --> 00:34:54.009 Baba K: and and she continued to to fight and organize until she transitioned 265 00:34:54.580 --> 00:34:56.330 Baba K: sometime in 266 00:34:56.469 --> 00:35:18.060 Baba K: 2,000. 12,011. So so she's so she's featured there. Because really, what's the point of learning all this? If we're not able to to put it into play to change our circumstance. So we wanted to make sure that that people had an opportunity to to talk about how they can use the information they learn to to change things for themselves and their communities and their families. 267 00:35:18.690 --> 00:35:19.959 Baba K: Alright. Next slide. 268 00:35:24.020 --> 00:35:53.050 Baba K: Okay? So this is a, this is a look at the the layout of the of the curriculum. As you can see, there's a there's a warm up, and then a lot of it is discussion and sharing. Most of the lessons have an activity that that requires the the youth to read something. So that's the guided practice section where they will read something and then analyze it. And then, like I mentioned before, there's an activity listed here, the water cycle bottle experiment. 269 00:35:53.300 --> 00:36:06.891 Baba K: But there's a there's a lot of activities in the in the Cross pollination activity bank and you can sub internet activities and then exit ticket to close it all out. We talked about the African analysis before. 270 00:36:07.240 --> 00:36:31.329 Baba K: 2 sections, critical thinking section, and then application section the critical thinking is more of a discussion based. Sharing. And the application is asking you to or asking the students, how can we take what we learned and and and actually put it into action? So so those those 2 sets of questions are are there. And it's really does generate deep discussion and deep thought. 271 00:36:31.330 --> 00:36:48.319 Baba K: which is what we want. We don't wanna program our our children. We want them to be able to think creatively and solve problems using you know, wealth of knowledge from both their ability to access information via the Internet, but but also just learning our traditions and our culture, too. There's a lot of power there 272 00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:50.080 Baba K: next slide, please 273 00:36:53.670 --> 00:36:55.559 Baba K: alright. So 274 00:36:55.700 --> 00:37:05.009 Baba K: as is apt to happen. You get on a call with with Michael Carr, Jr. And he dropped something on you. So this is something he dropped in us we were talking about. 275 00:37:05.040 --> 00:37:13.980 Baba K: I don't even know how we got on this, but he was like, Did you know? And of course I didn't. And so you want to tell the people what we're looking at. 276 00:37:15.630 --> 00:37:16.750 Me Carter: Alright, yes. 277 00:37:17.115 --> 00:37:21.139 Me Carter: this is the molecular structure of Port Bill, which is the 278 00:37:21.220 --> 00:37:24.110 Me Carter: like a better term blood of plants 279 00:37:25.095 --> 00:37:26.689 Me Carter: to your lap, the green one. 280 00:37:27.430 --> 00:37:31.420 Me Carter: and then the molecular structure, molecular structure 281 00:37:31.450 --> 00:37:32.770 Me Carter: of 282 00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:36.490 Me Carter: hemoglobin, which is the core of the phoenix 283 00:37:37.190 --> 00:37:38.710 Me Carter: who we know is but 284 00:37:40.170 --> 00:37:44.600 Me Carter: and it's almost identical as a molecular structure, except for 285 00:37:44.710 --> 00:37:46.899 Me Carter: the one atom that's at its core 286 00:37:47.190 --> 00:37:48.340 Me Carter: in plants. 287 00:37:48.530 --> 00:37:54.480 Me Carter: The center of this particular molecule is magnesium. 288 00:37:56.100 --> 00:37:58.210 Me Carter: And in humans, it's iron. 289 00:37:59.340 --> 00:38:07.660 Me Carter: So it shows the direct connection between plants and people. And we're literally one molecule away from having the same life force that keeps our bodies. 290 00:38:07.710 --> 00:38:09.809 Me Carter: I stems I 291 00:38:10.340 --> 00:38:11.350 Me Carter: trunks 292 00:38:11.630 --> 00:38:13.099 Me Carter: flowing and healthy 293 00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:15.939 Me Carter: implants is chlorophyll 294 00:38:16.160 --> 00:38:19.220 Me Carter: and people as hemoglobin will be the same thing if 295 00:38:19.340 --> 00:38:20.440 Me Carter: if 296 00:38:20.550 --> 00:38:26.590 Me Carter: that one molecule the same and it just again shows that connection between us 297 00:38:27.010 --> 00:38:31.580 Me Carter: and what I refer to as either mothers or our big siblings in terms of plants. 298 00:38:31.680 --> 00:38:36.549 Me Carter: They provide everything that we need for us, and I said, sustaining us by eating their leaves. 299 00:38:37.230 --> 00:38:47.609 Me Carter: by eating their grains, by assuming the Corfill directly from whatever help we saw, you would get chlorophyll from. But this provides a better understanding 300 00:38:48.230 --> 00:38:53.359 Me Carter: of our relationship, and why we need to consume so many fresh vegetables, and you can only imagine 301 00:38:53.990 --> 00:38:57.940 Me Carter: how that blood, how that chlorophyll is, if it's something that's 302 00:38:59.050 --> 00:39:02.419 Me Carter: more native to your genetic makeup. 303 00:39:03.450 --> 00:39:05.839 Me Carter: So I can imagine that the African plants. 304 00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:15.348 Me Carter: if you have African descent would have a genetic makeup that's very similar to yours. That magnesium may be closer to iron, or maybe 305 00:39:16.410 --> 00:39:25.400 Me Carter: A magnesium compound is very close to iron which pitch your blood. Exactly so. It'd be o negative to old Neck, or O positive or Ab. 306 00:39:25.600 --> 00:39:34.770 Me Carter: I don't know the blood ties bubba. But you know what I'm saying, if you you know, if you old negative as African folks and you left my African across, it's not. 307 00:39:34.940 --> 00:39:36.129 Me Carter: It would be 308 00:39:36.770 --> 00:39:42.079 Me Carter: in my theory would be highly probable that a chlorophyll would also be O negative. 309 00:39:43.810 --> 00:39:51.879 Me Carter: that lines up very succinctly with our own body and our own genetics. We talk about being healthy. 310 00:39:52.430 --> 00:39:59.390 Me Carter: A lot of it falls on us as individuals, as consumers, as what we consume and put in our bodies at this stage in our lives 311 00:39:59.410 --> 00:40:06.320 Me Carter: we are. We have the most control about what we put and consume, and and when we put our bodies in what we consume. 312 00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:13.329 Me Carter: And with that being the case, we have the opportunity to create life or create that with our food choices. 313 00:40:14.710 --> 00:40:20.719 Me Carter: And this is giving a great analysis of why we need to be choosing 314 00:40:20.770 --> 00:40:22.620 Me Carter: berries, vegetables that 315 00:40:23.150 --> 00:40:26.170 Me Carter: just organically grown, which is a plus. 316 00:40:26.230 --> 00:40:27.709 Me Carter: I'm just 317 00:40:28.820 --> 00:40:34.420 Me Carter: non Gmo, which is, or which is a plus, but also derive from a place 318 00:40:34.430 --> 00:40:36.340 Me Carter: that fits our genetic demo. 319 00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:41.609 Me Carter: So if you're indigenous, American, finding indigenous American plants 320 00:40:42.110 --> 00:40:44.849 Me Carter: would be ideal to make sure this matches up. Well. 321 00:40:44.870 --> 00:40:50.460 Me Carter: do you have Asian descent, finding Asian plans to match up? Well, that that are part of your culture. That's part of your 322 00:40:50.560 --> 00:40:51.990 Me Carter: you just never got brilliant 323 00:40:52.220 --> 00:40:55.519 Me Carter: because your genetics has memory. It doesn't forget. 324 00:40:55.890 --> 00:41:01.089 Me Carter: you know, over the last our last 5,000 grandparents 325 00:41:01.530 --> 00:41:03.330 Me Carter: have been eating a certain way. 326 00:41:03.410 --> 00:41:10.259 Me Carter: and it wasn't until the last 11 or so grandparents that it shifted from what we used to eat wherever we came from 327 00:41:10.550 --> 00:41:12.170 Me Carter: to now. And some of us. 328 00:41:12.180 --> 00:41:16.249 Me Carter: It's not even been that long. It's not. Maybe it's been 2 or 3 grandparents 329 00:41:16.550 --> 00:41:21.240 Me Carter: that shifted, or maybe one grandparent, or maybe just a parent to shift it. 330 00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:28.869 Me Carter: But prior to that, all of your ancestors, 8 from this next source, whatever place that would be, they lined up with your 331 00:41:29.160 --> 00:41:30.750 Me Carter: constitution properly. 332 00:41:30.890 --> 00:41:37.900 Me Carter: And now we just want to be aligned with our constitutions. This is one way of showing this. How much I'm important. Eating 333 00:41:38.590 --> 00:41:42.843 Me Carter: plants that are associated with your blood are is an r 334 00:41:44.260 --> 00:41:49.030 Me Carter: and I'm sure if we look further, we'll also see a relationship between 335 00:41:49.080 --> 00:41:53.310 Me Carter: carbon that's in the soil and the carbon that's in our body in the form of melanin. 336 00:41:54.500 --> 00:42:02.200 Me Carter: And I'm trying to make that connection as well, because that that's you know, as above, so below, above us, and and what we know is space is mostly melting. 337 00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:06.459 Me Carter: so it only makes sense that what is below us in the soil is also melting. 338 00:42:07.040 --> 00:42:12.959 Me Carter: And I'm working on various projects in terms of climate, smart, and climate mitigation practices that work on 339 00:42:13.390 --> 00:42:16.290 Me Carter: capturing and carbon in the soil. 340 00:42:16.420 --> 00:42:17.779 Me Carter: which means catch for me 341 00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:20.999 Me Carter: a high form of melody back into the soil. 342 00:42:21.180 --> 00:42:26.129 Me Carter: and putting that, melting them back into plants. And those plants back into melanot people. 343 00:42:30.080 --> 00:42:34.252 Baba K: Like that. Yeah, I like that. So there you go. That's 344 00:42:34.790 --> 00:42:43.290 Baba K: and the beauty of being able to do have discussions like this within the curriculum is that 345 00:42:44.110 --> 00:42:50.250 Baba K: there's not a separation between science and culture, and 346 00:42:50.260 --> 00:43:07.360 Baba K: you know, and and and theory, and all these things, like all of them, merge spirituality. All of it merges, and it's all right there. You know, looking at us in these 2 in these 2 molecules and their deep connection. So so thank you for taking us on that on that on that journey. 347 00:43:07.940 --> 00:43:10.170 Baba K: next slide. Relative. 348 00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:23.360 Baba K: Okay. Boom. So so that's that's it. Now, what do you do? Sustaina? You have any questions or special guest, guest of honor. 349 00:43:24.633 --> 00:43:26.653 Baba K: I've got wide. 350 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:28.550 Sessina Dani: Well, I don-. 351 00:43:28.550 --> 00:43:29.260 Baba K: And so, but. 352 00:43:29.526 --> 00:43:30.859 Sessina Dani: I just have an aside 353 00:43:31.581 --> 00:43:35.630 Sessina Dani: maybe to to to do later. But oh, can you hear me? 354 00:43:36.180 --> 00:43:37.129 Baba K: Yes, go ahead! 355 00:43:37.130 --> 00:43:42.020 Sessina Dani: Okay, okay, I was just clicking through some of the curricula, I think, for 356 00:43:42.250 --> 00:43:48.389 Sessina Dani: lessons 3 and 4 of this third module. The activities they link to the rain gauge. 357 00:43:48.500 --> 00:43:50.410 Sessina Dani: which is supposed to be for number 2. 358 00:43:50.530 --> 00:43:55.370 Sessina Dani: Listen, number 2. So just so that when I know this is like is now live. So 359 00:43:55.630 --> 00:43:58.420 Sessina Dani: if I don't know who's who can correct that. But 360 00:43:59.220 --> 00:44:01.501 Sessina Dani: just I just wanna put that all the way up. 361 00:44:03.090 --> 00:44:06.710 Baba K: Thank you. There you go. That's quality control. Right there we 362 00:44:07.190 --> 00:44:30.689 Baba K: she's on the case. So yeah, I think. I think that would be one of it is gonna go through and fix that link. Please. Yeah, if you find anything that this not linked up the right way. Let us know, so that we can, so we can fix it. If you haven't already seen the link. There's a link there to be able to download the curriculum. There's a password involved in it. And then there's 363 00:44:30.690 --> 00:44:53.662 Baba K: we're hoping to build community around it. So join the Facebook group and share share pictures and experiences. We had some wonderful pictures last time of a of a sister out in California, I believe, who was using this curriculum, which is geared toward middle school students. But she was using it for elementary age students. So she had to. She had to do some different things with the activities, sometimes to to make it relatable to them. But 364 00:44:54.210 --> 00:44:55.659 Baba K: but it's a 365 00:44:56.060 --> 00:45:01.427 Baba K: but it was wonderful to see. So please share if you're using it. 366 00:45:02.170 --> 00:45:09.390 Baba K: And yeah, I think I think that's it in terms of the in terms of the curriculum. We also. 367 00:45:09.550 --> 00:45:15.354 Baba K: you know, just wanted to make anybody who watched this, aware of things that are coming up. We have 368 00:45:16.540 --> 00:45:29.519 Baba K: The 2 22 will be at at the Black and Environment Conference in later in April and then in in June we'll have our Camp Earth pack leadership lab, where, people who wanna work with 369 00:45:29.540 --> 00:45:43.160 Baba K: adults who want to work with children in a summer camp type. Environment can come and learn tips, tricks, techniques, activities you can do with youth outside to engage them with 370 00:45:43.470 --> 00:46:07.440 Baba K: with concepts. Much like you find in this Afro cultural connections. Curriculum. There's a there's a week long training for that. There's a stipend available. And then those same those same folks that come out and learn with us will be able to participate in our Earth pack camps. It's gonna be 2 weeks of that one in late June and one in early July. Working with working with kids, 5 to 12. A lot of fun 371 00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:17.609 Baba K: and a lot of fun. You know, working with the other, the other co-counselers as well. So a lot of the stuff that we do ourspace world is a is a. 372 00:46:17.680 --> 00:46:29.279 Baba K: It's a group thing so you're not only doing work, but you're also connecting with others who value the work and want to make the same kind of contributions, and then to include the summer. 373 00:46:29.600 --> 00:46:34.573 Baba K: and in July we'll have our youth Black Land Brigade. We just got back from our our 374 00:46:35.250 --> 00:46:45.419 Baba K: I guess you could say, our adult Light Land brigade. Our college students in 20 somethings went to Bawa's. Evo's Vanguard Ranch. 375 00:46:45.530 --> 00:47:01.639 Baba K: helped them with some infrastructure there, and I got a chance to camp out, figured out how tough we were camping out in 30 degree weather, but we all came back happy and well, so it was a good time. So we're gonna take the youth out to another farm in Virginia. And 376 00:47:02.090 --> 00:47:22.159 Baba K: we're we're also looking to come to Carter Farms as well with another group. So more information on that will be coming that'll be in May. So suffice to say, we got a got a lot going on. Also a lot going on at Carter Farms. If you visit, visit, visit Carter Farms the event workshop page. This offerings just came out today. 377 00:47:22.260 --> 00:47:30.810 Baba K: A lot of stuff going on in April. So if you're looking for something to do on the farm in April, and if you're in and around Virginia Carter Farm is an excellent place to go. 378 00:47:31.060 --> 00:47:33.109 Baba K: You will be able to 379 00:47:33.220 --> 00:47:38.520 Baba K: to steep in the in the wisdom of that brother that you just heard words from. 380 00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:43.180 Baba K: and I think that's it. Do we have any more slides on the Tiffany? 381 00:47:43.870 --> 00:47:59.179 Baba K: Shout out to Mama Tiffany, the desk! Pod her for making sure that I don't have to navigate technology because it is funny looking when I have to do it. So thank you for putting together and curating the slideshow. 382 00:47:59.190 --> 00:48:07.715 Baba K: I'm clicking through that and all the other work you do shout out to Mama Ita, who also does a lot of a lot of the 383 00:48:08.707 --> 00:48:11.509 Baba K: creating content, organizing things for us. 384 00:48:12.305 --> 00:48:16.164 Baba K: We would not be where we are without her, and 385 00:48:16.610 --> 00:48:38.979 Baba K: really, to everyone that that made this possible? Everyone who's listening to this thank you for being part of it. And this is it, this is it for now? But but please stay connected. Stay in touch reach out if you if you need anything, or if you wanna help, you know this thing to move forward. We're welcome to hear it. 386 00:48:40.175 --> 00:48:42.139 Baba K: That's that's it. 387 00:48:42.370 --> 00:48:44.479 Baba K: Anything else from you, Mr. Carter? 388 00:48:45.170 --> 00:48:50.051 Baba K: Lucky getting ready to lay it down for the night while we're climbing back. 389 00:48:52.627 --> 00:49:02.590 Me Carter: No, I'm just killing no, nothing else. It's been a pleasure to work with you all, and sharing look forward to what comes next. 390 00:49:04.290 --> 00:49:08.979 Baba K: That's right, that's right, indeed, indeed! Alright, everybody. 391 00:49:09.220 --> 00:49:10.249 Baba K: it's not enough. 392 00:49:10.420 --> 00:49:11.620 Baba K: Stay! Well. 393 00:49:11.710 --> 00:49:14.941 Baba K: you and your families. We will. 394 00:49:15.520 --> 00:49:18.120 Baba K: We'll we'll catch you in the future. 395 00:49:18.280 --> 00:49:19.060 Baba K: Peace. 396 00:49:20.590 --> 00:49:21.176 Sessina Dani: Thank you.